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The Plant List
- Angiosperms
  - Araceae

Araceae

The family Araceae is in the major group Angiosperms (Flowering plants).

Statistics are at the bottom of the page.

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A list of all accepted and unassessed names in Araceae is available in CSV format (Unicode UTF-8 encoding) .

Statistics

Species of Araceae contained within The Plant List belong to 117 plant genera.

The Plant List includes 8,106 scientific plant names of species rank for the family Araceae. Of these 3,368 are accepted species names.

The Plant List includes a further 1,315 scientific plant names of infraspecific rank for the family Araceae. We do not intend The Plant List to be complete for names of infraspecific rank. These are primarily included because names of species rank are synonyms of accepted infraspecific names.

Species names

The status of the 8,106 species names for the family Araceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,368	41.5%
◕	Synonym	3,392	41.8%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	1,345	16.6%

All names

The status of the 9,421 names (including infraspecific names) for the family Araceae recorded in The Plant List, are as follows:

	Status	Total
◕	Accepted	3,459	36.7%
◕	Synonym	4,613	49.0%
◕	Unplaced	1	0.0%
◕	Unassessed	1,348	14.3%

Of the species names,

101 are recorded as invalid
171 are recorded as illegitimate
13 are recorded as a spelling variant

A further 1 name records indicate where names have been misapplied.

The confidence with which the status of the 8,106 species names recorded in The Plant List for the family Araceae, are assigned as follows:

Confidence level	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Total
High confidence	3,314	3,267	0	0	6,581	81.2%
Medium confidence	53	89	0	0	142	1.8%
Low confidence	1	36	1	1,345	1,383	17.1%

The source of the species name records found in The Plant List for the family Araceae is as follows:

Source of record	Accepted	Synonym	Unplaced	Unassessed	Misapplied	Total
Tropicos	53	89	0	1,180	0	1,322	16.3%
WCSP	3,315	3,303	0	162	1	6,780	83.6%
WCSP (in review)	0	0	1	3	0	4	0.0%